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Publisher / Publication Date: 1994
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COMEDY/SPOKEN VOI(LARSON, KATE, NARR.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne begins making a film for Zachary, son of his oldest friend who was murdered by Zachary's mother. The film's focus shifts to Zachary's grandparents as they fight to win custody of Zachary from the woman who took their son's life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2009
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DEASummary: Looks back at Jane Goodall's career as a primatologist, animal rights advocate, and environmental activist. Comprised of present-day interview segments with Goodall and archival footage of her work studying chimpanzees at Tanzania's Gombe National Park shot by Hugo van Lawick in the 1960s for National Geographic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JANSummary: Scientist Bruce Banner has been living in the shadows, scouring the earth for an antidote. Warmongers dream of abusing his powers and won't leave Bruce alone. He suffers from his constant need to be with the only woman he has ever love, Betty Ross, and Bruce knows that he must return to civilization. The brilliant doctor is ruthlessly pursued by a nightmarish beast of pure adrenaline and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie IncredibleSummary: The extraordinary debut from documentarian Bing Liu weaves a story of skateboarding, friendship, and fathers and sons into a coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MINSummary: Part 5 continues to explore the meaning of the scientific revolution and to examine the many problems that it raises. It is in this period that the West becomes keenly aware of the social and psychological origins and purposes of its activities. This is a period of spiritual turmoil as well as of material advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREUslan, Michael
Summary: In 1865, a plot was launched that promised to destroy a northern city in 1939. Alan Pinkerton, head of the secret service, established a secret society of detectives to discover the plot and foil it. Young Bruce Wayne joins their forces in early 1939, becoming Detective #27.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2003
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BATSummary: Due to his groundbreaking contouring techniques, his infectious personality and mission to make everyone feel beautiful, Kevyn Aucoin quickly shot to fame doing makeup for every supermodel and celebrity throughout the 80's and 90's. At the height of his fame in 2002, Kevyn died mysteriously. The film explores every corner of Kevyn's rich, beautiful and complicated life through the story of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LARKaner, Etta.
Summary: Young children describe why they like the snow and information hidden under the flaps explains various aspects of snow, including how snow muffles sound, what snowflakes look like up close, and why snow looks white.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 551.5784 KANBane, Jenn
Summary: "With eight billion people in the world, why is it so hard to meet and make new friends? Making friends as an adult is not easy. Keeping friends isn't easy, either. There are legitimate obstacles in our way: we're busy, we're anxious, and too often, we'refar away. Jenn Bane and Trin Garritano, hosts of the feel-good podcast Friendshipping, know this better than anyone, and they've distilled the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Workman Publishing Co., Inc. 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 177 BANKano, Yumiko
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Offers the author's accounts of her time as a highly paid prostitute, how she came to work for multimillion-dollar madam Anna Gristina, and how she became an informant against Gristina after being threatened with jail time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KADE, REBECCA KADMinato, Kanae
Summary: "After calling off her engagement in wake of a tragic revelation, Yūko Moriguchi had nothing to live for except her only child, four-year-old Manami. Now, following an accident on the grounds of the middle school where she teaches, Yūko has given up and tendered her resignation. But first she has one last lecture to deliver. She tells a story that upends everything her students ever thought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINWilliams, Kale
Summary: "The heartbreaking and ultimately hopeful story of an abandoned polar bear cub named Nora and the humans working tirelessly to save her and her species, whose uncertain future in the accelerating climate crisis is closely tied to our own. Six days after giving birth, a polar bear named Aurora got up and walked away from her den at the Columbus Zoo, leaving her tiny squealing cub to fend for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.786 WILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Animal Wild WilliamsKaner, Etta
Summary: "Do polar bears build homes to keep warm? Do penguins snuggle with a friend? Yes! But their homes aren't made of wood, and penguins don't cuddle on a couch. Instead, these animals -- and many others -- have adapted in amazing ways to survive chilly weather. [This book] is a light-hearted introduction to animal adaptations around the world. Funny interactive questions paired with comic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.7 KANKaner, Etta.
Summary: A tour of some of the world's greenest structures
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Design KanerNury, Fabien
Summary: "Moscow. September 17th. 1904. In front of the palace of the Governor General of Moscow, the assembled masses protest against widespread poverty. Governor Sergei Alexandrovich is stood on the balcony when he drops his hankerchief-- Inadvertently giving the signal for the soldiers to open fire... The Governor fears for his life and the lives of his family as the repercussions of his deadly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Titan Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NURTurkel, Nury
Summary: Laying bare China's repression of the Uyghur people, the former president of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and now a commissioner for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, drawing on his own personal story, exposes the historic injustice behind the greatest human rights crisis of the twenty-first century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURKEL, NURY TURKaner, Etta
Summary: "What do cane toads, cats and Burmese pythons have in common? They're invading our ecosystems! Learn about 10 common invasive species from around the world, exploring how they got into new ecosystems and the damage they've caused. With text organized in all kinds of fun ways, from posters to newspaper articles to comic strips, this funny, highly visual book will keep young readers engaged. Each...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 591.6 KANMiller, Lulu
Summary: Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2020
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Summary: "Pretty Tricky meets Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate in this guessing-game book that explores how in nature, things aren't always what they seem ... ... sometimes what looks like a plant is actually a rock or what looks like a rock is actually an animal or what looks like an animal is actually a plant. In ROCK? PLANT? ANIMAL?, young readers are invited to guess what they are looking at as they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 578.4 KANKaner, Etta.
Summary: Children wonder how the sun is involved in certain processes, and readers can flip open the pages to discover why grapes turn into raisins, how sunglasses work, and what shadows are.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2007